Hello all,

I am a Win2000 Pro user who has made the move to the Win2K series from years of using 
Windows 98. 
This Windows 2000 install was clean -- the "system" hard drive was reformatted; it 
was not an "upgrade" install from Windows 98. While I enjoy the loss of headaches 
over the constant memory crunch found in the daily operations of Windows 98, since 
moving to Windows 2K I have recieved a few new ones. Here's the first of which:

When working offline in Windows 2000 (i.e. a situation where my cable modem is in 
standby mode, or the connection is interrupted so that it is not present), my machine 
slows down horribly. I don't run out of memory, yet my CPU is on 100% load during 
this period. As I am a novice-intermediate user of this OS, I am unsure if this is 
a Windows setting, or a byproduct of one of the programs I am running.

Here are a few details about my home system:

AMD Athlon 750 Mhz processor 
(motherboard is ECS K7VZA with BIOS version 3.4b)
384 MB RAM
2 hard drives (20 GB - Win2k/system/programs only, 80GB - storage)

I have upgraded Windows 2000 to Service Pack 4.

one thing I think might be contributing to this problem is the use of Norton System 
Works 2005, but I can't tell for sure. 

The opening Windows boot sequence used to only take seconds, but now, it takes several 
minutes to start up all the programs I've allowed to start up using the msconfig 
utility.

As of the last scanning, there are no viruses or any other spyware problems on the 
machine (as far as several utilities can tell).

This slowdown becomes especially annoying if my internet connection somehow becomes 
interrupted (I use a cable modem).

Is this the nature of Windows 2000, or a problem that can be remedied?

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re: Extreme slowdown while working offline in Win2k Friday, May 13, 2005 at 4:16 pm Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) Dr. Claw It's hard to say what you have running in the background that's slowing down the machine but it's a good bet it's Norton junk.. But you can try and run it down with the TaskMrg. CTRL-ALT-DEL and see what processes is using the CPU to a total of 100% or the biggest draw on it. A Note****your CPU should not be over 1% most of the time if that...it may spike to 100% for just a sec. and then drop back down. Once you find the item that's using the CPU the most highlight it and end the task for it. You can also use this tool to disable it or set it for manual start at boot up. ------------------- Download Service Controller From: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4313.html ---------------------------- You said that you are using msconfig, try the tool below for more control of your startup programs. download StartUp CPL http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=619 Look for it in your Control Panel ----------------------------- Also go to http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm to see what program files are ask to do when they are set to run and do run.. On Friday, May 13, 2005 at 1:50 pm, Dr. Claw wrote: >Hello all, > >I am a Win2000 Pro user who has made the move to the Win2K series from years of using >Windows 98. >This Windows 2000 install was clean -- the "system" hard drive was reformatted; it >was not an "upgrade" install from Windows 98. While I enjoy the loss of headaches >over the constant memory crunch found in the daily operations of Windows 98, since >moving to Windows 2K I have recieved a few new ones. Here's the first of which: > >When working offline in Windows 2000 (i.e. a situation where my cable modem is in >standby mode, or the connection is interrupted so that it is not present), my machine >slows down horribly. I don't run out of memory, yet my CPU is on 100% load during >this period. As I am a novice-intermediate user of this OS, I am unsure if this is >a Windows setting, or a byproduct of one of the programs I am running. > >Here are a few details about my home system: > >AMD Athlon 750 Mhz processor >(motherboard is ECS K7VZA with BIOS version 3.4b) >384 MB RAM >2 hard drives (20 GB - Win2k/system/programs only, 80GB - storage) > >I have upgraded Windows 2000 to Service Pack 4. > >one thing I think might be contributing to this problem is the use of Norton System >Works 2005, but I can't tell for sure. > >The opening Windows boot sequence used to only take seconds, but now, it takes several >minutes to start up all the programs I've allowed to start up using the msconfig >utility. > >As of the last scanning, there are no viruses or any other spyware problems on the >machine (as far as several utilities can tell). > >This slowdown becomes especially annoying if my internet connection somehow becomes >interrupted (I use a cable modem). > >Is this the nature of Windows 2000, or a problem that can be remedied? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Extreme slowdown while working offline in Win2k Monday, May 16, 2005 at 5:58 am Posted by adrian (788 messages posted) Win2000 is "by nature" a networking os. Which means that it will try by default to: find network resources, index same, reestablish connectons, etc. When you are not connected, all these activities will fail, but it takes a long time. This is the workaround I use: I set all the services associated with network activities as MANUAL, not automatic, and I created two batch files, one containing net start commands, and the other net stop commands, with shortcuts on the desktop, so I have those services running only when I am connected. Example line for startnet.bat: net start "world wide web publishing service" Check each line in a command prompt window (disregard misleading warnings) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum